June 18, 2017 / rockaway / Comments Off on Baby found dead inside Bayswater home; Medical examiner to ascertain case of death

The baby’s body was found inside a Falcon Avenue home after his mother found him purple and unresponsive several hours after putting him in his crib.

A Bayswater mother told police that she found her three-month old baby boy dead in his crib Saturday morning, according to police sources.

Police responded to a 911 call at home at 2951 Falcon Avenue, nearby Bayswater Park, Saturday morning and found a Zaire Reefe unconscious, police said. The baby was taken to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway, where he was pronounced dead.

His mother, Quanesha Hall, 37, told police that she had put him to bed in his crib and when she awoke and went to check him at about 9 p.m., he was bleeding from the nose and “looked purple.” Hall started CPR, put to no avail.

Police say that the investigation is ongoing and a medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause or death.